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Could you Dump ITN news?

(September 2010)

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A former member
Lets be honset in National news, There go on about health, eduction, law etc which was is all English.. and half the stuff in the news has no use what so ever.

Yes international news, and Murders etc is news worthy here but half the time its pointless. at least the its very useful to the English areas as its about there services....
TM
Telly Media
Lets be honset in National news, There go on about health, eduction, law etc which was is all English.. and half the stuff in the news has no use what so ever.

Yes international news, and Murders etc is news worthy here but half the time its pointless. at least the its very useful to the English areas as its about there services....


Am I the only person who doesn't understand a word of this?
Last edited by Telly Media on 21 September 2010 12:07am
PE
Pete Founding member
He's pointing out the manner in which the London based news tends to report health stories that only affect England as if they affect the whole of the UK. It's something you don't notice until you start living in Scotland and then sit through the news thinking "that doesn't affect me, nor does that, why didn't they mention it was England only?"

What the Scottish however do not realise is the rest of England also have to put up with the London-centric attitude of said news channels with their endless reports on London bike initiatives but bugger all said on any sort of thing that occurs elsewhere.

And of course Scottish money isn't legal tender, but that's a whole tedious argument for another day.

10 days later

RB
RB
I could be wrong, but don't some of the English regions have larger potential audiences than the Nations? North West and London being the biggest population centres in the UK. So if anyone should get their own version of Newsnight? or a special programme, or to be able to opt out whenever the hell they want to . . . .



There's a good case for mix and match national, regional and international news everywhere.
But it is stronger in Scotland.
For a start London and the North West aren't separate jurisdictions. They don't have their own parliaments. They don't set their own national football teams. They don't send their own teams to the Commonwealth Games. Their politics are not very different. They've no equivalent of the SNP.
They don't have governments that can rile others. For example the Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed affair, which was a very Scottish issue but an international one too.

Scotland has a clearly defined border (where does the North West end? Why isn't northern Cumbria, the most northwesterly bit of England in the North West?).
Scotland is different from England. That's why its media and its news values tend to be different - to reflect its nationhood and character.

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